Queer Not Here

Hi folks! Welcome to the wrap up episode of this season of Queer Not Here! This is a bit of a special episode, I’m not interviewing anyone, but rather having a casual chat with my friend Kar Yin, who…

Hi folks and welcome to our last interview episode of the season! This episode I speak to Natasha, a bisexual woman living in Australia. Natasha talks to me about what it was like coming out to her m…

Hi! This episode I speak to Kye, a transman and actor living in Los Angeles, USA. Kye is also the younger brother of Adam, who you may have heard in the previous episode. Kye tells me about leaving M…

Hi! This episode I speak to Adam, a gay Sabahan filmmaker and YouTuber, living in Melbourne, Australia. Adam talks to me about the environment of fear he experienced as a gay person in Malaysia and h…

Hi folks! This episode, I speak to a good friend of mine, Seok, who's a gay academic doing her PHD in Syracuse, USA. Seok talks to me about community, language and identity politics in the US. Thanks…

Hey folks! This episode I speak to Wai, a gay man and professor of communication at St. Louis university, in Missouri, USA. Wai is the research partner to Hemla, who you may have heard in a previous …

Hi Folks! This week I speak to Hemla, a lesbian and professor in mental health counselling in Missouri, USA. Hemla tells me about what it was like coming out and being queer in the 90s, and why the m…

Hi! This episode I speak to Khalid a gay man living in London who I mentioned in the 'What is Queer not Here' introduction episode of the podcast. Khalid tells me about how some Malaysian students at…

Hello! This episode I speak to Alfie, a gay man living in Los Angelas, USA. Alfie talks to me about how much his internal homophobia and self-loathing affected him, and how it led to his process of r…

Hello! This episode I speak to Raz, a transwoman living in Melbourne, Australia. Raz tells me about what it was like transitioning in Malaysia and how it's been for her joining the Australian Navy. 

This episode I speak to KarYin, a queer woman living in San Francisco, USA. She tells me about what it was like to march in Pride as part of SAMBAL (Singaporean and Malaysian Bisexuals and Lesbians) …

This episode I speak to SuFeh, a queer dancer and performer in Vancouver, Canada who left Malaysia in 1985. They tell me about how it felt giving up their Malaysian passport and how the tools and lan…

Hello! This episode of Queer Not Here, I speak to KM, a bisexual working and living in Hong Kong. We talk about what it's like to see Malaysia as a transient space, and the difficulties of feeling se…

In our second episode, I speak to Firas, a gender queer Kedahan who's spent the last decade in New York. We chat about colonised identities and what it means to be a Queer Muslim. Enjoy the episode!

Meet Alana! A transwoman working and living in London, she is seeking asylum because of the discrimination she'd face back home in Malaysia. But is London really safer for her? 

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